Smashed plates lay strewn on the drawing room floor on Tuesday afternoon.They bore telltale signs of the brief resistance that Sonali Biswas, 43, had put up before being overpowered by two men who robbed her Moore Avenue home in ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphA 48-year-old man was killed when a fire broke out in a residential building in West Bengal's Salt Lake area, the satellite township on the eastern fringes of Kolkata, officials said on Tuesday.The incident occurred late Monday night at ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphThe ship Clyde, launched at Calcutta on January 26, 1802, sailed from the city on this day, bound for London, on a voyage for the British East India Company.It had cost sicca ₹76,000 to build.It was listed as belonging ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphCalcutta: A man who has been working at a licensed arms shop in Dalhousie over the last two decades was arrested in Baruipur, South 24-Parganas, on Monday for allegedly selling ammunition illegally to unlicensed buyers.The Special Task Force (STF) ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphThe hawkers who have set up their stalls on roads in the New Market area have to approach the town vending committee for a space to open their stalls and cannot sit on the road on their own, Debashis ...
19 February 2025 TelegraphA celebrated German filmmaker known for his poignant depiction of loneliness spoke of a different kind of loneliness on Monday.“Today, there is a whole new form of loneliness, a very sick form. Even if instruments tell us they provide ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphGarbage dumped on pavements or along roads, bins overflowing with no one to clear them and heaps of waste being set on fire — once a showpiece township, Salt Lake is now a picture of complete neglect in waste ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphRobbers cut through an iron grille on a window, entered a two-storey house in the Dum Dum Cantonment area in north Calcutta and robbed an elderly couple holding a knife against them.The heist at 2am on Monday once again ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphChildren with pre-existing conditions like ADHD, autism or any other intellectual disabilities are more susceptible to stress during the board exams, said psychiatrists.The stress manifests through anxiety, aggression, lack of concentration and panic attacks. A deviation from the routine ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphThe Chhot boat that was made at Dihimondal ghat in Howrah’s Shyampur in October 2022 might not have yet reached its final destination at the National Maritime Heritage Complex at Lothal, Gujarat, but the process of its construction is ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphTwo brothers were allegedly attacked with a knife by a group on Harish Mukherjee Road, near SSKM Hospital, when they were returning home after closing their roadside stall in the New Market area late on Saturday. Two men have ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphA copy of your Aadhaar card shared as identity proof while checking into a hotel. A credit card handed to a waiter ata restaurant to settle the bill. Charging the phone at the airport.Such seemingly innocuous activities can offer ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphAt least three people have lost money over the past few days in an alleged fraud while trying to withdraw money from an ATM of a nationalised bank near Kishore Bharati stadium in Jadavpur.The victims told police their cards ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphOn this day a school was started for the education of Indian-Armenian girls in the city. Armenian writer and educationist Mesrop Taghiadian opened a girls’ school. It was named Saint Sandught. A boys section was added to it.It closed ...
18 February 2025 TelegraphPre-Independence, unified Bengal’s textile legacy included not just the muslin or the jamdani patronised by the royalty but also the everyday cotton sari and gamchha from Santipur and the kantha of folk tradition.Chikankari, a handiwork from Awadh, was also ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphRobot-assisted paediatric surgeries have better outcomes and require a shorter hospital stay than conventional surgeries, doctors said.Such surgeries cause minimal blood loss and ensure a faster return to normality, a paediatric robotic surgeon said. “Laparoscopic surgery is akin to ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphIndividuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities should be made to self-advocate their rights and simultaneously be trained for independent living, experts said at a national-level parents’ meet this weekend.The 30th National Parents Meet was organised by the National Institute ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphHawkers across Calcutta are back to their old ways, encroaching on roads, putting up tarpaulin sheets and occupying more than the stipulated space on footpaths, The Telegraph saw on Sunday. At the Oberoi Grand arcade, the hawkers kept the ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphThe frequent change in the wind pattern is behind the seesaw mode of the Celsius in Calcutta, Met officials said.The Met office recorded a minimum temperature of 19.8 degrees, a notch above normal, in Calcutta on Sunday. Three days ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphAn "epidemic" of cold, cough and fever is sweeping across the city aided by frequent temperature fluctuations, doctors said.A doctor at a government medical college in Calcutta said about 20 per cent of the patients visiting OPDs (outpatient departments) ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphScottish missionary John MacDonald, who came to work in Calcutta, was born on this day. He was pastor at the Scotch Church in Islington, London.In 1837, at the suggestion of Reverend Alexander Duff, he was asked to come to ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphThe man who entered the three-storeyed house of Madhumita Mitra on Central Avenue on Wednesday night with a machete and robbed her of valuables and cash, had a clear idea of the building’s layout, including the room where the ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphThe singer-composer whose musical proclamation Ami Banglay gaan gai / Ami Banglar gaan gai (I sing in Bengali / I sing about Bengal) resonated among Bengalis far beyond the state, passed away on Saturday.Pratul Mukhopadhyay was 83.Mukhopadhyay was admitted ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphMobile phones are one of the most “severe distractions on the road” and “please don’t use” them while driving or walking on roads, Calcutta police commissioner Manoj Verma said on Saturday. He was speaking at a programme to mark ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphSeveral cars were damaged when a fire broke out in a garage near Aman Motors in Arupota near Dhapa, off EM Bypass, on Saturday morning.It took three fire tenders nearly two hours to bring the flames under control. Police ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphTraders in and around New Market are struggling for survival in the run-up to Ramazan, supposed to be the best time for business, because Bangladeshi customers have still not returned in big numbers.Some traders have already been put out ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphOn this day, liberal politician William Ewart raised in the British Parliament the matter of local legislative councils in India.According to UK Parliament papers, “Mr Ewart rose to put a Question to the Secretary of State for India as ...
17 February 2025 TelegraphSetting aside objections of the West Bengal government, the Calcutta High Court on Friday granted conditional permission to RSS to hold a rally in Burdwan district on February 16.Organisers of the rally, which RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is scheduled ...
15 February 2025 TelegraphThe creation of Bangladesh has been of no use to India. On the contrary, it has done us harm. We created a monster that is now trying to eat us,” said former Member of Parliament Bikram Sarkar.He was speaking ...
15 February 2025 TelegraphIIEST Shibpur will have a new hostel that will accommodate around 1,000 students ready by May, said officials.Accommodation woes have plagued the residential campus for several years now. Many deserving students have chosen other institutes in the absence of ...
15 February 2025 TelegraphGovernment buses have started operating on 16 routes covering parts of Calcutta and adjoining areas like Dunlop, Salt Lake, New Town, Garia, Patuli, Behala and Jadavpur till 11pm.The routes have been selected so that the buses travel long distances ...
15 February 2025 TelegraphBengal police on Thursday said the so-called Jamtara gang is now branching out to different parts of the country, including Bengal, to avoid detection. Bengal police have arrested as many as 46 people accused of cyber fraud in the ...
15 February 2025 TelegraphA second-year college student was allegedly threatened with an acid attack and told she would be ripped apart after she slapped a man who is said to have teased her for feeding stray dogs.The woman, who lives with her ...
15 February 2025 TelegraphThe estimated population of the saltwater crocodile in the Sunderbans is between 204 and 234, according to the 2024 census.The saltwater or estuarine crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), the largest living reptile in the world, is the apex predator in the ...
15 February 2025 TelegraphFE Block is set to go under electronic vigilance, joining a limited number of blocks in Salt Lake.A ceremonial demonstration was given on the day of Saraswati puja when residents were shown the feed from two temporarily installed cameras ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphSince classical music conferences are rare in the Salt Lake-New Town region, nine music enthusiasts of Uttara Housing Complex - Dwitiya have come together to establish the Uttara Newtown Cultural Society. Their mission is to organise an annual Indian ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphA Government Railway Police officer was killed early on Thursday after a goods vehicle hit the two-wheeler he was riding on Kali Krishna Tagore Street in Burrabazar. Sandip Das, 38, was flung off his motorcycle under the impact of ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphOn this day, the ship, Lord Macartney, launched as an East Indiaman, arrived in Calcutta on its sixth and last voyage for the British East India Company.It had sailed from Portsmouth in England.It was then chartered by the British ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphA branch manager of a nationalised bank has been arrested by the Bengal CID for allegedly creating mule accounts used to siphon funds of people duped into an investment racket.Police identified the accused as Sourav Mandal, who was in ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphA planned screening of Ritwik Ghatak's Amar Lenin documentary and his seminal feature Komal Gandhar at a state-run school in Kolkata on February 10 was allegedly canceled due to objections from local ruling party supporters, citing the films' political ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphApollo Multispeciality Hospitals, Kolkata, has introduced paediatric robotic surgery, bringing advanced technology to complex procedures for children. With robotic-assisted techniques, the hospital is reducing recovery time and improving surgical precision.At a news conference, Dr Debasish Mitra, Paediatric Robotic Surgeon ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress-backed junior doctors’ forum announced on Wednesday that they would work under the guidance of the association of senior doctors loyal to the ruling party and led by minister Shashi Panja.The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Association (WBJDA), ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court has asked the state primary education board to file an affidavit stating the reason behind the delay in publishing the TET 2023 (Teachers’ Eligibility Test) results. The report must be filed within three weeks.Justice Biswajit Basu ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphThe National Council Science Museum’s wall calendar for 2025 introduces phantasmagorical creatures that would give a good run for money to JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them franchise.The Technocoleus artificialis (a representation of the beetle) with ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphInnovations in biomedicine have the potential to make the world a much better place for future generations, a British science communicator said in Calcutta last month. “Innovation is what drives the world’s progress. We have lived through 50 years ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation has set up 22 urban health and wellness centres in the city in addition to the existing primary health centres to create more facilities for people to receive treatment. The health and wellness centres provide ...
14 February 2025 TelegraphThe Sunderbans tiger that had strayed into a village and attacked forest personnel was captured in a trap cage early on Tuesday, forest officials said.The tiger, an adult male, was released back into the wild on Tuesday afternoon.The tiger ...
13 February 2025 TelegraphServices along the East-West corridor of Metro Railway, Kolkata, will remain suspended for four days from Thursday, for communication trial, the Metro said in a statement on Wednesday.The trial will be held as the tunnelling work between Esplanade and ...
13 February 2025 TelegraphAn aerial circular pathway around 18ft above the ground, just below the Metro viaduct, with five entry-exit points.That is the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA)’s plan to address pedestrian crossover woes at the busy Ruby rotary on EM Bypass.The ...
13 February 2025 TelegraphThese were among the issues flagged on Tuesday before the State Level Grievance Redressal Committee, which has been set up to hear doctors’ suggestions and complaints. The committee members visited two medical colleges in Calcutta during the day. They ...
13 February 2025 TelegraphOn this day, Amrita Bazar Patrika, a newspaper published from Calcutta, printed an advertisement of “IELPS to English Composition” on its front page. This advertisement was in English, even as the rest of the matter on the page, mostly ...
13 February 2025 TelegraphA platform of schoolteachers who had been holding an indefinite sit-in at Esplanade since December 27, 2024, demanding that the Supreme Court clear the air on who was fairly recruited based on the evidence provided by the school service ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphA call centre in Dum Dum that police raided on Monday night was involved in cheating people and had been operating from an apartment rented out by a policeman, officers said.A man was arrested at the spot and 17 ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphThe state secondary education board barred six students from writing Madhyamik on Tuesday.Among the six, three students of a school in North Dinajpur allegedly entered the exam hall with mobile phones, took photographs of the second language question paper ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Tuesday asked all lower courts to transfer case documents within 14 days of the high court taking up the matters to avoid delays in the judicial process.The division bench of Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out on the Palm Avenue campus of Ashok Hall Girls’ Higher Secondary School on Tuesday afternoon, police said.The school building was shut because of renovation, the police said.The classes have been shifted to two other buildings ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphThe first matchbox factory of Bengal opened at 30 Russa Road in 1892, decades after their invention in Europe. But Calcuttans were using matchsticks years before.A collection of imported matchboxes is on display as part of the History and ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphSenior BJP MP Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato has raised concerns about the security of former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee, who is currently in judicial custody in connection with a recruitment scam involving the School Service Commission (SSC).Mahato also ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Tuesday said the trial in cases related to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital should be expedited to maintain people’s faith and confidence in the judiciary.Justice Joymalya Bagchi said this while hearing a plea by ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphThe foundation stone of Sacred Heart Church in Dharmatala, a Catholic church built by the Portuguese in Calcutta, was laid on this day.Apparently a brawl led to the founding of the church. Pascoa Barretto De Souza, the mother of ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out inside the premises of a private English medium girls' school in the Ballygune area of the city on Tuesday, police said.No one was injured in the fire as the school was closed due to some ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphThe 73rd reunion of Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, in association with The Telegraph, wound up on Sunday with the annual reunion debate, a much-awaited event on the college calendar.The motion — this House believes that medicine is ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday reserved its verdict on a batch of nearly 125 appeals and cross-appeals, including one by the Bengal government relating to Calcutta High Court’s April 2024 judgment quashing the recruitment of 23,123 teaching and non-teaching ...
12 February 2025 TelegraphStudios in Tollygunge were back to their usual bustling self on Monday.Lights and props were set up and cameras rolled again. Actors were back in business and directors called the shots. A stand-off between directors and technicians had crippled ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphThe state government on Monday announced its plan to launch two mobile apps, one to crack down on rash driving of buses and the other to inform commuters about the current location of a bus and when the next ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphA passenger jumped off a plane’s ladder and started running in the apron area after being told by the pilot that he would be deplaned for his alleged misbehaviour on Sunday morning.Airport officials said the 24-year-old man was chased ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphThe electric wave has reached Calcutta, and the city is slowly but surely adopting battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) as a mode of transport.In the first month of the new year, 530 units of four-wheeler EVs were registered in Bengal, most ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphA first year MTech student was found dead on the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT) campus in Nadia’s Haringhata on Monday night.Sayani Das, 23, a resident of Durgapur, allegedly fell from the fifth floor of the ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphThe Sonarpur-based group that allegedly duped Americans posing as officials of the US department of homeland security had agents in the US working for them and accepted payments in gold, silver, cash and gift cards of Apple and Sephora, ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphA young chef from England whose blender broke down in the middle of a fish preparation for the final round of a culinary contest was still able to work his way around and emerge the winner among participants from ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphA tiger strayed into a Sunderbans village and attacked forest personnel trying to rescue a villager who had climbed a tree to escape the claws on Monday.Ganesh Shyamal, 36, a member of a quick response team, comprising villagers trained ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphThe state secondary education board barred three Madhyamik examinees from writing this year’s papers on the first day of the Class X boards on Monday.One of them had her elder sister write the first language paper on her behalf ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphKolkata: You will see Babul Supriyo riding a Harley-Davidson someday.On February 1, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a cut in the import duty on heavyweight bikes with engines above 1,600cc from 50 per cent to 30 per cent ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphTwenty-seven lakh people visited the International Kolkata Book Fair 2025, an official of Publishers and Booksellers Guild said on Monday.The 12-day book fair was held from January 28 to February 9.Till Sunday (February 9) morning, the last day of ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphChildren designed their sunglasses and played with colours while some others chose to jump on the trampoline during a day-long carnival curated for them. While the children played, parents shared their experiences. Baby’s Day Out, an initiative of Neotia ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphAn e-rickshaw driver has been arrested for allegedly raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl whose body was found in a bushy area near Loha Bridge in New Town's Action Area I on Friday morning.Police said the accused, Soumitra Roy, ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphRussia has recently announced that a cancer vaccine is being developed. It will be available this year. This has created tremendous enthusiasm all over the world. Will cancer now be curable or become a chronic disease like diabetes and ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphHowrah’s air quality was “very poor” for nearly half of January, the state pollution control board’s air quality report has shown. Howrah had 13 days of “very poor” air in January. There were 14 days of “poor” air and ...
11 February 2025 TelegraphThe first birthday of the R G Kar Hospital rape-murder victim since her death last year was marked by a silent rally in Kolkata in which doctors and people from all walks of life took part on Sunday.The rally, ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphThe deadlock at the Tollygunge studio para has been broken, at least for now.The directors’ guild said its members would resume work. The announcement came after a meeting between directors and technicians at loggerheads and representatives of production houses ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphCalcutta, the convict ship named after the city, arrived at Plymouth in England on this day. It was to sail to Port Phillip in Victoria, Australia, to establish a settlement.The ship was expecting convicts from prisons of Bodmin, Exeter ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphNinety-one-year-old Dulal Chandra Dalui has rarely missed his college reunions. Friday was no different. In 1994, Dalui retired as the head of the surgery department of Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, also his alma mater. Many of his ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphThere were lights, there was the camera but there was hardly any action.The crew turned up at several Tollygunge studios on Friday but missing in action were the directors.The directors’ guild, protesting the alleged high-handedness of the powerful technicians’ ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphIndia’s appetite for Apple products continues to grow and is accompanied by the Cupertino headquartered company’s effort to manufacture more iPhones in India.A new address — Imagine’s Apple Premium Partner Store — for all things Apple opened at South ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphThe minimum temperature dropped five degrees to settle at 17.3 degrees Celsius on Friday in what the Met office said was the last lap of winter.Saturday is likely to see the Celsius drop further to around 15 degrees, according ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday rejected the Bengal government’s appeal seeking capital punishment for Sanjay Roy for the rape and murder of a young doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and accepted the CBI’s prayer stating that ...
10 February 2025 TelegraphPolice probing the alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl whose body was found on an isolated stretch in New Town on Friday are checking all the CCTV cameras installed along the routes between her home and the ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphA major fire broke out in a slum in the Narkeldanga area of the city in which one person was killed, a Fire Brigade official said on Sunday.At least 30 shanties were gutted in the fire, the official said.The ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphWHEN : Sister Nivedita University presents and Jac Olivol co-presents Calcutta Club The Telegraph National Debate 2025WHERE: The Calcutta Club Lawns MOTION: T20 is the real test of cricketVERDICT: The motion was defeatedFORJoy BhattacharjyaQuizzer, quizmaster, raconteur, cricket analyst, former ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphThe body of a 14-year-old girl, suspected to have been raped and murdered, was found on a deserted stretch of New Town on Friday morning. Police said according to the preliminary inquiry, the girl had left her home in ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphTwo students of Jadavpur University, who had allegedly been molested outside the campus by another student, staged a sit-in inside the university’s administrative headquarters on Thursday evening demanding justice. The two students also accused the university authorities of sitting ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphThe high court on Friday said former principal Sandip Ghosh and four others accused of financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital should be granted time so they get the opportunity to know the charges imposed on ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphA hub of culture has turned into “a hub of criminals, a hub of hooligans” under the “inefficient” Muhammad Yunus government, Calcutta mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday when asked about the fresh flare-up in neighbouring Bangladesh.The state of ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphA minor girl was raped and murdered in New Town, Kolkata, within hours of leaving her home after a dispute with her mother, police confirmed on Friday. Locals discovered the victim’s half-naked body inside a fenced-off, secluded area near ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphBidhannagar AikyaOver a journey of 15 years, the Saraswati puja at Bidhannagar Aikya has arguably become the biggest in the township. “Our attempt is to keep innovating,” said president and councillor Tulsi Sinha Roy. “We try to introduce something ...
9 February 2025 TelegraphWith the tithi for Saraswati puja stretching over two days this year, schools had a choice of when to celebrate. While most schools chose Monday, there were blocks and individuals which offered puja the day before, preferring the convenience ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphNew Town is set to have a new functionary who will take charge of providing civic services in the township. An order has been issued by the state personnel and administrative reforms department, dated January 30, appointing Mohd. Abdul ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphSrabani Maitra is so modest speaking about her plants that one is rather taken aback on seeing her terrace garden. Not only does she grow all categories of plants — flowers, fruits, vegetables and cacti — but she has ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphI had a harrowing experience on January 10 that I want to share with residents so they can be careful and with the authorities so they can take action and save lives before it’s too late.I was crossing the ...
8 February 2025 TelegraphThe venue was new and the dates coincided with Saraswati puja, but it all worked out in favour of Bidhannagar Horticultural Society that held its flower show last weekend. Held in association with the state forest development corporation, the ...
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